swapping hard drives?

i have a 120g hd i bought thinking i might need it when i built my comp. my comp currently has a 40g hd in it. i was wondering the easiest and safest way to per say swap whats on my 40g over to the 120g hd and be able to boot and go. running windows xp 2000,p4 2.8,1 gig of ram, and a bfg 6800gt vid card. thanks

 

good idea on running it as a slave forgot i could go that route thanks

 

Use whichever drive is the fastest (RPM's), as the master, rather than using it as a slave. Use the other to store your backups and less used stuff on. Partition your fastest drive ( I am assuming it will be the 120gig drive), into 2 or more partitions. Include all your M$ stuff on the primary partition. All your other stuff on the other partition/s. Then if you have to reinstall/restore/reformat your Windows partition, the rest of your stuff is safe. Bazza

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hmmm well seems like it wont even detect my other hd hoked in as the slave. i looked at the program u posted and says its a 15 day trial. does that mean i can only use the prog for 15 days or does it mean if i mirror my smaller drive to put on the big one that after 15 days everything i mirrored onto it wont work ??? confused about that part

 

The program itself is trial-ed for 15 days.

Also, did you set the drive as slave via the hdd jumper?

 

You can also try norton ghost if you have it.

it have a cloning feature.....

 

You are probably correct. Touch wood, I haven't had to do this. You will have lost your registry but at least you will still have all your data, photos, music, documents, etc.

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You are pretty much correct.

 

Check out
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=63971 and
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=64582

on how I partitioned my HD. Works for me.

It may stir your gray matter going and you will come up witha similar idea. Partition sizes will be different, of course, as you have a much bigger HD. bazza